Andre Yew

That's an exaggeration. The SA glow of the 58G is mostly visible when you pixel peep, but not at normal viewing sizes and distances. Soft-focus lenses, Lomos, etc. have effects that are clearly ...

Marianne, thanks again for your insightful experiments. From looking at the point-light renderings, it appears that the two Nikkor 50mm lenses would have have the same kind of sharp/blur behavior ...

One can tunnel vision on any attribute, including bokeh.

I have the 85/1.8D, and it is definitely faster than the G, though still slower than the Tamron. Some people say that the screw drive has backlash which can lead to inconsistent AF, but I've not ...

Thanks Luka! Now we'll all be waiting for the lens with a design budget of 12. :)

Thanks for the translations Luka! They're very useful. I rented this lens for a while, and I'm surprised at what they say about its AF speed, which is pretty darn slow. I wonder how much slower it ...

I've directly compared the Nikon 85/1.8G to the Tamron 85/1.8 SP. The Tamron has noticeably faster AF, and has better all around image quality. Sharpness is about the same, but color correction ...

It was an observation, not a judgment, so no need to be defensive about it. But there are lenses that don't exhibit much SLoCA even wide open on scenes like this: the Otus lenses, the Zeiss 135 ...

I know it's a tough scene, but the SLoCA on the water highlights is pretty noticeable even at preview sizes.

Thanks!

Now that's 3D rendition! :D Marianne, how do you set up that shot? Is it just a lens shift?

He also did the original 24-120. :D The 1001 Nights story about that is kind of amusing, and shows a little bit of Sato's non-conformist personality, which seems appropriate for the guy who did ...

Glad to hear it's useful! ND filters are a staple of landscape photography for various reasons including smoothing out water. I don't have a good suggestion for books, but there are plenty of ...

Just this weekend, I was checking out the OMD E-M5II with the 12-40/2.8 as a small travel camera, and decided to do a landscape shootout against the D810 and 24PC-E. In the link below are some ...

So I've tried to work through this explanation, but it doesn't make sense to me. Why is the wider Gaussian used to model microcontrast? My understanding of your friend's explanation is that the ...

This isn't exactly fair to those lenses or their designers either: same issue as what the 58G fans don't like about comments on their lens. The problem are the fanboys who evaluate a lens on some ...

I think this is instructive and doesn't contradict anotherMike's comments. This chart was shot at close distance (and the 35/1.8 sample looks a bit misfocused too), where AM among other people ...

Yes, it happens with the 58G as well. It's part of the swirly bokeh look. I think the real reason you find it so distracting is because the damned bokeh is brighter and has more contrast than the ...

I think that's a fine excuse for missing a shot, but not for publishing them! The bridge doesn't really look sharp to me anywhere in the frame, even the far end. This is heresy, but ...

Thanks! The lens looks like it has a lot of potential and is much cleaner than the 58G, but the samples are of oddly varying quality. The backlit guy is out of focus, and the bridge photo has some ...